Closet attachment.



PATENTED JAN. 3, 1905.

(I. G. LANAUX.

CLOSET ATTAGHMBNT.

APPLICATION rum) MAR. 22, 1904.

UNITED STATES Patented January 3, 1905.

CHARLES G. LANAUX, OF NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA.

CLOSET ATTACHMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 779,048, dated January 3, 1905.

7 Application filed March 22, 1904. Serial No. 199,442.

closet-seat and means for furnishing a fresh surface for each user thereof.

With the foregoing in mind the invention will be fully understood from the following description and claims, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view illustrating a closet-seat equipped with my improvements. Fig. 2 is a view illustrating a portion of the seat in dotted lines and my novel seat attachment in full lines and in an inverted position. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of one of my novel sheets for affording a fresh surface to each user of the seat; and Fig. 4 is a perspective view of a pad composed of sheets, such as shown in Fig. 3, and a comparatively thick and stiff back and adapted to be hung on a wall or other suitable support.

Similar letters designate corresponding parts in all of the several views of the drawings, referring to which A is a closet-seat, which is provided with the usual opening a, and is of the ordinary or any other suitable construction, and B is my novel attachment, which is disposed on the upper side of the seat in rear of the opening a thereof, as best shown in Fig. 1. The said attachment is preferably of metal and comprises a strip 6, having projections 0 on its under side adjacent to its ends and devices (Z. preferably screws or nails, fixedly connecting the said strip to the seat A. By virtue of the projections c on the under side of the strip bit will be observed'that a space e is afforded between the strip and the seat intermediate of the said projections, and spaces f are provided between the end portions of the strip and the upper side of the seat for a purpose. presently set forth.

C O are sheets of tissue-paper or other suitable material, which are preferably, though not essentially, treated to render them antiseptic. The said sheets are provided with openings g and are also provided in their rear ends with notches h, shaped and arranged to receive the projections 0 of the strip 6 after the manner illustrated in Fig. 1. A plurality of the sheets are preferably arranged in the form of a pad, and their rear ends are detachably connected together and to a backing i, of cardboard or other suitable material, having a hanger-up j, as shown in Fig. 4.

The pad shown in Fig. 4 is designed to be hung on the wall of the toilet-room in which the seat A is arranged, and when the seat is to be used one of the sheets O is detached from the pad and is arranged on the upper side of the seat in the position shown in Fig. 12,'. a, in such position that the notcheslg of the sheet receive the projections 0 of the strip7o- I), while the end portion In of the sheet rests between the said projections 0. In virtue of the sheet being engaged with the strip 6 in the manner just described casual movement or displacement of the sheet is effectually prevented, which is an important desideratum, and yet the sheet may be readily removed from the seat and replaced with a new sheet taken from the pad when the seat is to be used by another person.

It will be appreciated from the foregoing that my improvements while simple and inexpensive are. calculated to afl ord a fresh and clean surface for each user of a closet-seat, and thereby prevent the dissemination of disease.

I have entered into a detailed description of the construction and relative arrangement of the parts of my improvements in order to impart a full, clear, and exact understanding of the same. I do not desire, however, to be understood as confining myself to such specific construction and relative arrangement of parts, as such changes or modifications may be made in practice as fairly fall within the scope of my invention as claimed.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s

1. The combination of a closet-seat having I00 an opening, an attachment connected to said seat, in rear of the opening, and comprising a strip, and one or more projections on the under side of the strip intermediate of the ends thereof and interposed between the strip and the upper side of the seat, and a sheet removably arranged on the seat, and having an opening, and also having one or more notches in its rear end, intermediate of its side edges shaped and disposed to receive the projections of the attachment on the seat.

2. As an article of manufacture, a pad for the purpose described comprising a backing nesses.

CHARLES Gr. LANAUX.

Witnesses: y

W. PRENDERGAST, GEO. LANAUX. 

